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GAMB COUNTER. 170.278,747. Patented June 5,1883.

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UNITED STATES HELEN A. RUSSELL, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

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GAME-COUNTER.

SECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent -No. 278,747, dated June 5, 18i S,

Application filed October 23, 1882. (No model.) I I l To @ZZ whom, t may concern cylindrical boss which serves to centralize the Be it known that I, HELEN A. RUSSELL, of loose ring.

Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented a certain Improvement in Game-Counters, of which the following is a specification. lt is the object of my invention to provide, in compact form, counting mechanism for keeping records relating to two or more different subjects.

In carrying out my invention I arrange around the outer part of a stationary disk any desired number of iigures or diagrams representing serial numbers. In the center oi' the stationary disk I arrange a smallerdisk, which is capable of being rotated, and which has a pointer projecting radially outward from its periphery. Beneath the stationary disk I provide a loose ring or perforated plate, having `upon its outer edge a radial projection upon which I mount another pointer, which is di- .rected inward toward the center of the stationary disk. By means of these two pointers, which are capable of independent rotation and adjustment, .the same circle of serial numbers may be used for registering two different subject-matters. For example, the exterior pointer can be used to indicate the number of points made in a game of whist, and the interior one the number of games played, or vice versa. I may also provide the rotating disk with a centrally-pivoted pointer for employment in connection with numbers or igures represented upon the face of the rotating disk. The accompanying drawings, illustrating the application of my invention in a gaine-counter, are as follows:

Figure 1 is a top view. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a top view of the rotating disk with thepointer centrally pivoted thereon. Fig. I is a side elevation of the rotating disk and centrally-pivoted pointer. Fig. 5 is a plan of the stationary disk upon which the serial numbers are arranged, and Fig. 6 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 7 is a top view of the loose ring which supports the exterior pointer. FigfS is a side elevation of the ring and the base oi' the apparatus. Fig. 9 is a top view of the base with the other parts removed. Fig. 10 is a side elevation of the base, showing the Referring to the drawings, the apparatus consists oi' the disk A, around the outer por.- tion of which are symmetrically arranged a number oi' cards of the suit of diamonds, commencing with the ace, and indicating by the number of spots upon them the serial numbers desired.

- It will ofcourse be understood that figures, numerals, or other diagrams answering the purpose of representing serial numbers, may be employed instead of the representation oi' diamond-suit cards.

On the top ofthe disk A, I provide the small rotating disk B, having the pointer B projecting radially from its periphery.

The base of the apparatus is provided with the cylindrical boss C, to the top of which the disk A is fastened.

The ring l), by which the exterior pointer D is supported and carried, loosely incloses the cylindrical boss C, which centralizes the ring I), and makes the path of rotation of the exterior pointer D concentric with the disk A.

A third pointer, E, may, if desired, be hung upon the upper end of the pin F, which serves as the axis for the rotating disk B, in which case the face of the disk B may have figures or other devi ces represented up on it for use in connection with the pointer E. Thus, in the drawings the disk B is represented as having upon its face representations oi' the four suits of cards, and the pointer may be employed in such case to indicate the trumpsuit.

It will of course be seen that inasmuch as the pointers B and D are wholly independent of each other, they can be separately used in connection with the single circle of figures upon the disk A to indicate two different numbers-as, for example, one may be used to indicate the number of games played, and the other the number of points made.

rIhe hub of the central pointer, E, is inclosed between the washers G and G, and it is intended that the frictional hold of the washer G upon the hub of the pointer and upon the disk B will be sufficient to cause the pointer E to be carried around when the disk B is rotated, so that its position relatively to the iigures or representations upon the i'aoe of the disk B will not be changed by the act oi' rotating that disk, but can be elianged by rotating the pointer F Without rotating the disk B.

1. The improvement in game-counting apparatus herein-described, which consists ofthe following members, to Wit: iirst, a stationary disk having displayed in a eirele upon it a prescribed number of iigures or diagrams representing serial numbers, second, a small rotating disk Centrally pivoted upon the stationary disk, and provided With an outwardly-projecting' pointer; and, third, a loose ri ng beneath the stationary disk, provided with a ral dial ln'ojeoton Carrying;` another pointer direoted toward the center of the stationary disk,

pablo of being rotated independently ofthe disk B, the Whole arranged substantially as shown and described.

HELEN A. RUSSELL. Ti tnesses E. B. STRINGHAM, ELLA B. XVARNER. 

